{"id":90317,"date":"2021-06-26T12:33:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=90317"},"modified":"2021-06-26T12:35:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T16:35:14","slug":"americas-past-critical-race-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/americas-past-critical-race-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Past (Critical Race Theory)\/Hour 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s past haunts its legacy<br \/>\nA legacy of democracy<br \/>\nA legacy of liberty, justice, freedom for all men<br \/>\nA legacy of creating a nation from nothing<br \/>\nThe legacy and the lie of the American dream<br \/>\nCRT seeks to tell the truth<br \/>\nTo break through the glass of lies<br \/>\nTo raise the mirror and show America its true self<br \/>\nA truth hidden underneath packed and padded stories<br \/>\nhistories denying colonialism and genocide<br \/>\nA past built on slavery and white supremacy<br \/>\nAn untruthful past strutted like peacock feathers<br \/>\nSpread far and wide, for all to see<br \/>\nOur nation&#8217;s leaders are not ready to come to terms<br \/>\nNot ready to offer reconciliation for its past discretions<br \/>\nThey prefer to keep things secret, to hide their heads in the sand<br \/>\nto not ruffle feathers, to let things LIE<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d rather die than breathe in the truth<br \/>\nThey&#8217;d rather toot stories of the theory being racist<br \/>\nIt would cause Americans to hate their nation<br \/>\nBut to love is to love all of it<br \/>\nThe good, the bad, the beauty and the ugliness<br \/>\nYou can&#8217;t just love the parts you like, those parts that glorify YOU<br \/>\nAmerica&#8217;s past wants to be told<br \/>\nIt wants to be scrutinized and reckoned with<br \/>\nAmerica wants us to love all of her<br \/>\nDoesn&#8217;t she deserve it? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America&#8217;s past haunts its legacy A legacy of democracy A legacy of liberty, justice, freedom for all men A legacy of creating a nation from nothing The legacy and the lie of the American dream CRT seeks to tell the truth To break through the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90560,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90317\/revisions\/90560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}